The navel building boom soon unsettled the general peace that The Berlin Conference had established. The every larger and ever more technologically advanced navel vessels being constructed by the nations of continental Europe soon overawe the naval strength of Britain, the USA and Japan. This was seen as a general threat to the world order that had been created by The Berlin Conference. A new conference was hurriedly arranged in London in an attempt to settle this issue. By the time of the conference, the combine strength of the continental navies was such that freezing each power at this status quo would have enshrined the inferiority of Britain, the USA and Japan. To avoid this the non-continental power sued for a solution similar to that embraced in the Berlin Conference. That warfare on the open seas would be deemed illegal without the sanction of the majority weighted vote of the signatories. Riverine warfare would be allowed and naval forces used in support of an allowed land action would still be permitted. This Treaty of London relieved much of the pressure to build large capital ships needed to conduct warfare on the open seas. The resources once directed to the construction of these massive capital ships could now be redirected to the construction of transports, river capable gun boats and the new classes of land born mechanized weapons.		The technical sophistication needed to build "the masters of the seas" could now be applied to the lessor craft that would be needed to secure the prosperity of the empire. As the engineers and artisans learned to apply their craft to these much smaller vessels and vehicles, they soon found the ability to turn out successive generations of craft on a much shorter time line lead to an ever quickening pace of development. The diverse challenges of adapting to the varied environments that were now being encountered in the colonies lead to even more innovation in design and execution. Each new development was eagerly shipped to the lasted conflict zone to allow for field testing and redevelopment. This rapid construction and deployment provided a means to validate new concepts at a pace that could never had been possible with the large and costly capital ships. This hothouse environment of innovation proliferated advance upon advance. Soon each nation had exhausted the supply of navel architects, designers, engineers, scientists and machinists. The universities and gymnasiums were unable to supplied properly trained works at the rate the new industry demanded. Each empire would scour their lands looking for individuals to fill the ever growing need. Amateur inventors, tinkerers, clock builders, jewelers and even toy makers were called upon to apply their diverse skills to development of the new sinews of war.